Improvement in fashion-charts



ITNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

MARTIN LANDEN'BERGER, JR., OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASHION-CHARTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,524, dated May 16, 1876; app ication filed April 7, 1576.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN LANDENBER- GER, Jr., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved FashiouOhart, of which the following is a specification:

The objectof myinvention isto so combine on a pattern-card, or on a leaf or leaves of a book, a picture of a dress with samples of fabric appropriate for the dress, that by comparing the said samples with the picture, a more ready and satisfactory selection of a fabric suitable to the taste of the purchaser may be made.

The accompanying I drawing represents a sheet of card-board or stiff paper, on which is printed, or to which is attached, a picture representing a lady dressed according to any prevailing fashion.

It is a common practice to manufacture fabrics which, owing to taste or to the caprices of fashion, are considered especially applicable to a peculiar style of dress, the fabrics having one general characteristic, but differin g as regards color, pattern or texture, and cost.

I secure to the card or paper, in a position near the picture, strips or of the different fabrics, which either taste, custom, or fashion may determine vto be applicable to the dress exhibited by the picture;

The illustration, owing to its proximity to the specimens, will readily suggest to the purchaser the general appearance which a fabric like any one of the specimens will have when made up into a dress, and will thus facilitate selections.

In a prevailing style of dress it may be fashionable to make the jacket, skirt, and other portions of the dress-fabrics of different kinds or colors, or both, in which case I attach specimens of the diflerent styles of fabrics to the sheet, to which may also be added speci-' mens of appropriate trimmings.

The sheets, thus prepared, may be used as sample-cards, or as illustrative leaves of fashion-books, in which case the picture of the .dress may be on one leaf and the specimens on the other.

In attaching the specimens to the sheet I prefer to secure them at one end only, so that the texture of the diii'erent specimens can be determined by feeling them.

If desired, the price per yard of the different specimens may be printed below each.

I claim as my invention- The combination, on a pattern-card, of an illustration or illustrations of articles of dress,

- with strips of fabric appropriate to thearticles,

as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARTIN LANDENBERGER, J R.

Witnesses:

HARRY HowsoN, Jr., HARRY SMITH. 

